Cool Hunting Video Presents: The International Banana Museum

There are many interesting and odd things to be found of the shores of the dying Salton Sea in southern California but maybe one of the most unique is the International Banana Museum. Recently transplanted from Culver City, the museum occupies a squat building on the side of the Highway 111 in Mecca, CA, a relatively short drive south from Palm Springs. Housing the largest collection of banana paraphernalia in the world, the museum is a fascinating catalog of all the different ways the iconic fruit can take shape. For our latest video we stopped in and spoke to Fred "Banana Mon" Garbutt, who owns the collection and curates this curious collection.

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[Aritz Bermudez Monfort]

we are all so different...

[madedownunder]

he should grow bananas out the back and have a little cafe serving banana based food and drinks.

[Riken Chapaneri]

i bet you every single one of those bananas has been up his dirt pipe / chilli ring

[barrack obama]

"banana telephone" ಠ_ಠ

[byakuya42]

"so when people come and see my collection" ...

who's crazy enough to come? he'd be murdered and stuffed into a banana suit damn it!

[Lewis Watt]

This guy is bananas....

[millamulisha]

Oh no, no one tell Ray Comfort! ;)

[MrCowboyRoland]

this guy needs to stop smoking so much god damn weed